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Aristion (physician)
Aristion ( grc, Ἀριστίων) was a surgeon of ancient Greece Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of Classical Antiquity, classical antiquity ( AD 600), th ..., probably belonging to the Alexandria School of Medicine. He was the son of Pasicrates, who belonged to the same profession. Nothing is known of the events of his life; with respect to his date, he may be conjectured to have lived in the second or first century BC, as he lived after Nymphodorus, and before Heliodorus.Oribas. ibid. p. 180 References {{Authority control 2nd-century BC Greek physicians 1st-century BC Greek physicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece ( el, Ἑλλάς, Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of Classical Antiquity, classical antiquity ( AD 600), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related polis, city-states and other territories. Most of these regions were officially unified only once, for 13 years, under Alexander the Great's Macedonian empire, empire from 336 to 323 BC (though this excludes a number of Greek city-states free from Alexander's jurisdiction in the western Mediterranean, around the Black Sea, Cyprus, and Cyrenaica). In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period. Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the Archaic Greece, Archaic period and Greek colonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria School Of Medicine
The Alexandria School of Medicine is one of the oldest empirical educational institutions in the history of medicine initiated during the Hellenistic period in the city of Alexandria (311 BC). At one historical juncture, in Egypt, they united all the different medical doctrines that originated in the East and in Alexandria (increasingly resembling a cosmopolitan city), and merged into one universal "critical mass of knowledge" the Alexandrian empirical school.'' History & Society: School of Alexandria 'Encyklopedia Britannica/ref> As the Alexandria School grows more developed Medical Schools in Knossos and in Knidos over time lost their meaning and significance. History The Greek city of Alexandria, at the mouth of the Nile, was planned and founded by Alexander the Great in 331 BC, and concentrated in it cultural streams from various places: the mysticism of the East and Greek rationalism, in a rich library, with about 700,000 written rolls (the treasure trove of all human knowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nymphodorus (physician)
Nymphodorus, ( el, Νυμφόδωρος; 3rd century BC), a Greek physician, who must have lived in or before the 3rd century BC, as he is mentioned by Heraclides of Tarentum. He was celebrated for the invention of a machine for the reduction of dislocations, called ''glossokomon'' ( el, γλωσσόκομον), which was afterwards somewhat modified by Aristion, and of which a description is given by Oribasius. He is mentioned by Celsus Celsus (; grc-x-hellen, Κέλσος, ''Kélsos''; ) was a 2nd-century Greek philosopher and opponent of early Christianity. His literary work, ''The True Word'' (also ''Account'', ''Doctrine'' or ''Discourse''; Greek: grc-x-hellen, Λόγ ... along with several other eminent surgeons.Celsus, viii. 20, p. 185 Notes * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nymphodorus 3rd-century BC Greek physicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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